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Word: castings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight was election week in Oberammergau, Germany. But not for a mayor, police chief or sheriff did the citizens vote. Pious and thoughtful, a committee representing all the citizens met to elect a new cast for their world-famed Passion Play in which the entire village takes part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Christus | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Nationalist party with him. Late returns gave the Nationalists only 15 seats in the new Parliament to 46 for Labor. Chosen to succeed Stanley Bruce as Prime Minister of Australia was a sober middle-aged journalist and laborite, James Henry Scullin. As news of a Labor victory was broad cast, newsgatherers collected at the home of Australia's previous Labor Premier, Edward Theodore, likely candidate for the post of National Treasurer in the new Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Bruce's Swan Song | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...pallid, pretty face of Josephine Hutchinson, playing Mlle Bourrat, is a frail tissue rent with bewilderment and agony. Also in the cast is her mother, Leona Roberts, ridiculous as a hobbling, puffing aunt. Eva Le Gallienne does not appear, but her associates make this simple story a rich miniature of provincial weal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...would much prefer lunching among the students in Cambridge to going to stuffy Boston parties. I'm not ancient, and I hate being regarded as a venerable member of the cast of 'Strange Interlude', complained Anders, who plays the 'role of Darrell', the doctor, in O'Neill's work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glenn Anders, Guild Star, Admires Harvard Indifference on Visit--Calls Proper Acting of O'Neill's Drama Difficult | 10/15/1929 | See Source »

...dialogue begins, and the Movietone records Charles Morton's body-shaking sobs as short, shrill, barks, the screen sadness produces an equal and opposite reaction, and the audience laughs. That temporarily destroys the soothing effect of Janet Gaynor's voice and the generally superior acting of the cast; but before the end, peace is restored, and one is able to appreciate the picture again. Nancy Drexel and Barry Norton do well as the running mates of the other couple, and Mary Duncan, as the baroness who nearly breaks up the quartet, performs her villainies royally...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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